Old Fashioned

 

I have to make a couple of phone calls today,

business not pleasure I’ve been putting off

for days. I Plan on reading and writing some

while listening to music. Not sure what tunes

to select yet, that depends on the mood I

happen to be in.

Then there’s hot dogs for lunch and possibly

canned beef stew or frozen pizza for dinner. A

little nodding off occasionally between the acts

of the production I’m starring in today.

Had I been born and lived a century earlier, I

wouldn’t have all these conveniences today

which allow me to move lackadaisically with

profound alacrity.

Lackadaisically, now there’s a word you don’t

hear used much anymore. In other times, some

may call the likes of me a lazy bum. But in this

high-tech day and age where all one need do is

throw switches, push buttons and give bots verbal

commands, rather than get up off our asses and

physically do something, surely a word such as

lackadaisical needs to be reintroduced into our

current sluggish and slovenly society.

Why some folks today rely on Peloton, NordicTrack

and Nutrisystem to tell them what to do.

But then, I excuse myself due to advance age and

poor physical conditioning. I’m kind of old fashioned

in that way, lackadaisical you might say.

                       -30-

Chris Hanch 10-26-2020